Affiliate marketing is one of
the easiest ways to start making money on the Internet; that's
why people are always looking for the latest and most effective
affiliate marketing tips and methods to apply.
Affiliate marketing is relatively
easy to start because you don't need to create any product,
you don't need to write a sales letter, and you don't have to
worry about inventory and delivery. All you need to do is pick
a product, promote it and earn affiliate commissions.
Having said that, a lot of people
still find it hard to make money with affiliate marketing. The
reason is because a lot of people don't know how to go about
it despite the avalanche of products available on the Internet
for promotion.
I've come across a lot of affiliate
marketers who sign up to lots of affiliate programs and just
leave them without promoting. If you are like that, you can
never make money as an affiliate.
Affiliate marketing, just like
other forms of making money online, requires constant promotion.
You have to regularly promote your affiliate campaigns using
the methods you know if you want to establish a lasting affiliate
business.
In this article, I'm going to
be revealing to you for free, the vital things you must do to
succeed in your affiliate marketing business. This means that
if you do these things, you will succeed in your business; but
if you don't do them, your chances of success are small.
Affiliate Marketing Tip
# 1: Build Your Own Website
The number one mistake most affiliates
make is that they don't build their own website. They promote
the affiliate links they are given directly. That is a likely
path to failure.
It is important to build your
own website. Be it for review purposes or just a squeeze page.
You have more chances to succeed on the long term with your
website than without your own website.
Even if you don't have the funds
to invest in a website, create a blog using blogger.com or wordpress.com.
Affiliate Marketing Tip
# 2: Create a Reviews Page
This is popularly known as pre-selling.
It involves creating a web page where you will do a review of
the product you are promoting before sending them over through
your affiliate link.
On your review page, make sure
you reveal clearly how the product has helped not only you,
but also many other people. State clearly the benefits of the
product and put people in the mood to buy before they go over
to the product they are promoting.
This will help in increasing
your conversions because you are not hard-selling, but you're
writing as an unbiased reviewer aimed to help the readers in
evaluating the affiliate product. To see a sample of a product
review, click
here.
Affiliate Marketing Tip
# 3: Create a Squeeze Page
If you're not new to Internet
marketing, you would have heard the statement "The money
is in the list". It's very true. If you have a responsive
opt in email list, your affiliate marketing campaigns will surely
succeed.
An opt-in list is a database
of names and email addresses of people that have asked for more
information from you. Their details are filed in an autoresponder.
The most reliable autoresponder used by the most successful
marketers is aweber.
When you have such a list, all
you need to do is to send emails to them promoting relevant
offers. You no longer need to spend money on promotion. This
is what the big Internet marketers do. They have their own loyal
list of subscribers they can turn to over and over again.
To effectively collect email
addresses, you must create a compelling squeeze page. A squeeze
page is a web page dedicated to capturing the names and email
addresses of its visitors. I'm sure you've come across them
before. Click
here to see an example of a squeeze page.
I highly recommend that you prepare
a 7-day course and/or give away free reports discussing a topic
related to the affiliate product you're promoting, in order
to entice people to subscribe. (Luckily, you can give away the
rebrandable reports or create a course from the wide selection
of articles available at http://www.20daypersuasion.com/affiliateforce.html)
Create a webpage, write an attention-grabbing
headline of the free course you are promoting, and write the
major benefits they will get after they subscribed. Then put
the all-important opt-in form to collect email addresses of
interested people.
When people opt into your autoresponder,
gently mention your affiliate link after every message. After
they have received the course and branded reports, you may write
about 5 to 7 follow-up messages that will go to your subscribers
to remind them of the offer.
Make sure you start building
your own opt in email list to increase your chances of making
a "killing" with your affiliate marketing campaigns.
Affiliate Marketing Tip
# 4: "Bribe" Your Visitors
"Bribing" your website
visitors and subscribers with similar products is a great way
to increase your conversion rate. If you have any existing product
related to the affiliate product, you can offer it for free
if they buy through your affiliate link.
If you don't have an existing
product, you can buy private label rights products and offer
them as bonuses.
These affiliate marketing
tips have been proven to work over the years. Use them and
your affiliate marketing business will surely succeed.
